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Train Your Dog At The Simon Foundation, Inc.

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:34:00 GMT

Train Your Dog At
The Simon Foundation,Inc.

The Simon Foundation,Inc. offers a full range of training classes. Our team of experienced trainers use only positive reinforcement methods to build confidence, shape behavior, and stimulate the minds of both you and your canine companion.

Course Offerings

Puppy Kindergarten (for dogs under 5 months of age)
Basic Obedience (for dogs over 5 months of age)
Intermediate Dog and Handler
Advanced Canine
Agility Obstacle
Tricks
Rally
Canine Good Citizen
Feisty Fido
Board & Train Doggie Boot Camp

Behavioral consultants and private training can be arranged either in your home or in our training facility. In addition to full private training programs, we offer one-hour private training sessions to focus on specific training issues.

Holiday Adoption Event at The Simon Foundation, Inc

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:18:00 GMT

Come Meet Your New Best Friend!

Saturday and Sunday
Dec 10th and 11th
11:00am to 4:00pm

Meet our available pets
Tour our facility
Speak with our staff
Learn about our full range of services; Training, grooming and boarding
Learn about our volunteer program

Stan & Beckitt two of our kittens

Join us for an evening with Cesar Millan- Dog Whisperer

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:27:00 GMT

Join us for an evening with
CESAR MILLAN
Dog Whisperer

Sunday
December 4th, 7PM
The Bushnell Auditorium
Hartford,CT (860) 987 5900

We are pleased that CESAR MILLAN supports our efforts.
Visit

The SIMON FOUNDATION,INC.

Our staff will be there with a booth
to answer questions about our Facility

Simon says, rescue pets Bloomfield foundation gives animals a second chance

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:16:00 GMT

By Don Pesci Published in the Journal Inquirer on 8/5/11

BLOOMFIELD — As we were walking down the line of spotless kennels, each one with a dog in it, Mark Greenberg paused by one of them. In it was a tan dog, very lively and exuberant.
Greenberg offered the dog his hand. The dog immediately calmed down, as if he had been waiting in the dark watches of the night for a familiar presence. Finally satisfied, the dog reverted into his usual mode but, I thought, with a sprightly bounce in his step. His tail was wagging merrily.
The kennel manager, Lisa Agresti, was beside us. We had just toured the inside of the kennels, all of them shining like new pennies, and even now in the late afternoon, smelling of water, a hint of disinfectant hanging about the walls of the Simon Foundation in Bloomfield.

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Foundation Readies $5 Million No-Kill Animal Rescue Center

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:19:00 GMT

By DAVID DRURY, Special to the Courant, The Hartford Courant

Life began to turn around for Lolly on a hot day this past summer.

Abandoned in a Waterbury garage with three other starving dogs, Lolly, a Rottweiler-shepherd mix, got a second chance when the landlord, unable to locate the evicted tenants, placed a call to The Simon Foundation.

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